Cofounder of Infosys Senapathy Gopalakrishnan is backing startups after retiring from the company 2 years ago. Has invested in 25 companies through his business incubator Axilor Ventures. He has also funded and created Itihaasa, a digital app that chronicles the evolution of India's IT industry through, among much else, interviews with industry stalwarts such as Azim Premji (No. 4) and fellow Infosys cofounder N.R. Narayana Murthy (No. 62). More »

More On Forbes

Commodities trading firm Glencore released its much anticipated 1,600 page prospectus in early May.

In it, the firm revealed the identity of its biggest shareholders including five individuals who are now worth, based on the listing price, at least one billion apiece. My colleague Chris Helman wrote an informative post on these new read »

A big part of the solution to getting young children to learn math in the poorest, most educationally backward parts of the world may be just simple items such as colored rings on strings, plastic blocks of different sizes and multihued circles, triangles and squares. “The kids take a lot of interest when we use these things. They don’t see it read »

India’s equity markets have been outperforming China’s markets by a big margin in recent years.

That may come as a surprise to some. China’s economy has been growing exponentially to become the second largest in the world. And it is often viewed as a model for India, which has been trying to catch up with its Asian neighbor. read »

How do you become a billionaire? Some argue there is a magic formula: start a business in a monopoly-ripe industry, expand as quickly as possible, and maintain a high percentage of control over your company stock. That certainly sounds like how Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates did it.

With 4,200 tech startups, India is the third-largest tech startup hub in the world. But the steady increase in startups and a range of initiatives by the Indian government to spur growth does not mean the challenges for entrepreneurs are any less. In India, 40% of startups failed since 2014, while in the first five months of this year, over 18 read »

On Friday, Athene listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $1.1. billion at a $7.4 billion valuation and setting the stage for a growth spurt that should fuel Apollo’s bottom line for years to come. read »